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Next chapter: Take Me Home, Freshlyground’s new album feels less like a comeback and more like a recalibration. Not just of sound but of identity. Photo: Supplied
AFRO FUSION

Take Me Home finds Freshlyground listening forward

Seven years on, Freshlyground return not to reclaim their past, but to reshape it, finding new voice, new audience and a softer more expansive sense of home

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Soulful: Freshlyground’s single Take Me Home is a heartfelt anthem for anyone craving belonging. Photo: Supplied
BASE

Gig Guide: Freshlyground return with Take Me Home, The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music presents The Gatherers with Sbusiso Ncube and  BASE Pulse to launch soon to DStv Channel 322

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  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
Soulful: Join Freshlyground and Manana for a soulful evening of songs at Kirstenbosch on 18 January. Photo: Supplied
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Diary: Freshlyground and Manana at Kirstenbosch Gardens; Cats at Teatro Montecasino; and Cape Wine Auction at Nederburg Wine Estate

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  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Regal: Nandi the Musical is on at Durban’s Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre. Photo: Supplied
CAPE TOWN MARATHON

Diary: Nandi The Musical, ParkLive Festival, Cape Town Marathon

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  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Fresh start: Zolani Mahola, former lead singer of Freshlyground. She was one of the performers at the Concert for Love at Nirox Park, north of Joburg, last week. Photos: Aron Halevi, Alaister Russell
ALBERT FROST

Zolani Mahola on music, motherhood and meaning

Reinventing herself through music, nature and purpose, she steps into her true power

  • Kibo Ngowi
7 min read
Diplomatic Afterlives is published by Polity.
FRESHLYGROUND

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency’s musical lift-off

Much song and dance is being made about The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, with help from a Freshlyground prodigy.

  • Hilary Prendini Toffoli
5 min read
BUSHFIRE FESTIVAL
Video

Zolani Mahola on how to stay grounded and fresh

Zolani Mahola talks about ‘Sing-Off SA’, how her band keeps on experimenting and her future plans.

  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
5 min read
Band in the bush: Freshlyground members Simon Attwell and Julio Sigauque headed for northern Mozambique with their Wired for Sound project where they recorded musicians in a studio set up in a 4×4.
FRESHLYGROUND

Breaking fresh ground with studio in a 4×4

Wired for Sound is a mobile musical machine. Its pilot project resulted in a 17-track album, a framework to support community radio.

  • Firdose Moonda
3 min read
Toya DeLazy won best newcomer award at this year’s Samas.
FRESHLYGROUND
Video

Sama cheat sheet: All the big winners

Didn’t have time to follow all the South African Music Awards coverage this weekend? Read our crib notes on the big winners.

  • Rhode Marshall
3 min read
What music is supposed to do
FRESHLYGROUND

What music is supposed to do

Freshlyground have been banned from performing in Zimbabwe. Theirs is just one case music’s long history as a political tool.

  • Lisa Van Wyk
4 min read
FRESHLYGROUND

Freshlyground lose work permits for Zimbabwe

Freshlyground have had work permits allowing them to perform in Zimbabwe revoked over a video which poked fun at Robert Mugabe.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
FRESHLYGROUND

Chicken for change? Robert Mugabe mocked in pop video

Video by World Cup group Freshlyground challenges Zimbabwe dictator to "become the hero he used to be" — and step down.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Fresh take on roast chicken
FRESHLYGROUND

Fresh take on roast chicken

Freshlyground have worked with <i>ZA News </i> to create a tongue-in-cheek political video on our northern neighbour’s great dictator.

  • Ilham Rawoot
4 min read